NEW YORK _ Having to play a game after watching the members of the 1994 Stanley Cup championship team thrill the Madison Square Garden crowd by just walking on the ice to celebrate their title of 25 years ago couldn't have been easy for the present-day Rangers.
It no doubt helped that their opponents for the night, the Carolina Hurricanes, had lost 16 straight games in the building, dating to January of 2011, but the Hurricanes were in no mood to play patsy on this night, spoiling the Rangers' grand night with three third-period goals to register a 3-0 victory. Warren Foegele had the game-winner, with Andrei Svechnikov and Brock McGinn adding empty-netters to puff up the score. Petr Mrazek had 27 saves to earn the shutout for Carolina.
The loss dropped the Rangers to 23-23-8 overall, and to 1-2-1 on their five-game homestand, which ends Sunday, when John Tavares and the Toronto Maple Leafs come to town.
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